[meadsjn]

After Kurt graduated from Behrend, he earned money delivering flowers for his mom and laying bitumen roofs. But he couldn’t face regular work, and eventually he registered for unemployment. Doctors refused to prescribe talk therapy, and for the general sense of depression that would later be refined to diagnoses of schizoaffective disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, he was given only Zoloft, an antidepressant, which he sometimes supplemented with recreational psychoactive drugs. During one week in 1994, he couldn’t get his prescription filled and got into a store argument that involved the police.
...
Skipping was “safe from development and capitalism, and in control,” he told me, at odds with a society that seemed “hell-bent on detaching itself from the natural world.”

Maybe it was a slow news day.

It reads like a life (or lives of all named in the story) wasted by drugs and Leftist mind-screw.

[lizma2]

The article is just sad.

[nicollo]

If we could only convince all leftists to pick up and leave for the nearest pond and spend the rest of their lives skipping stones... Not a bad example here.

[Daffynition]

He reminds me of several *famous* men who have carved themselves notoriety in their own areas.

David Lawrence of Albany, VT; The Story of Pete the Moose,

HD Thoreau of Walden fame

Dick Proenneke, Alaska

The/Leatherman(vagabond)